Wilmington, NC
Join Wiley and other authors at the Cape Fear Book Festival with the New Hanover County Public Library. More details to come.
Join Wiley and other authors at the Cape Fear Book Festival with the New Hanover County Public Library. More details to come.
Join Wiley and several beloved authors for a fundraiser at Page 158 Books to support childhood literacy. Click here to learn more and register.
Join Wiley for Adult Story Hour in support of the Cape Fear Literacy Council at Bill’s Brewing Co. and Taproom at 4238 Market Street. Get tickets and learn more at this link.
Join Wiley and fellow authors Jill McCorkle, Megan Church, Caroline Cleveland, and Heather Frese at the Cape Fear Vineyard and Winery in support of the Cape Fear Women’s Club. Get tickets here.
Join Wiley at the Charlotte Center Forum at the McColl Center when he’s interviewed by friend and fellow author Judy Goldman at a lecture where Wiley tries to answer the question “Does Modern Literature Have Anything to Say?” Tickets available here.
Join Wiley for a reading and book signing at the Marshall branch of the Madison County Public Library.
Join Wiley in-conversation with author David Joy with music by David Childers. Click here for more information and to get tickets.
Join Wiley for a special live taping of the Our State Book Club Podcast with author Kristy Woodson Harvey at Silver Coast Winery. Get tickets here.
Join Wiley for a live taping of the Our State Book Club Podcast when he’s in conversation with author Ron Rash at the Asheville Ideas Fest. Speakers to include Kwame Alexander, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Kamau Bell, and many, many more. Get tickets here.
Join Wiley for a keynote talk in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy.
Join Wiley for an in-conversation event with Erik Larson to celebrate the release of his new book The Demon of Unrest. Get tickets here.
Join Wiley Cash for a conversation with Eric “Sleepy” Floyd, a man who Coach John Thompson wrote about as being “such a phenomenal scorer, if he missed shots, he thought it was the rims and not him.” Cash and Floyd will discuss what it was like to play under Coach John Thompson as the Georgetown basketball was on the rise, what it was like to face hometown rival James Worthy and UNC in the National Championship in 1982, and what Coach Thompson’s mentorship meant to him both during and after his fourteen-year NBA career. OLL Manheim Room on the campus of UNC-Asheville. This event is part of the Fall 2023 Common Word Community Read. For more information click here.
Join Wiley when he hosts the filming of his brother Cliff Cash’s live comedy special at historic Thalian Hall in downtown Wilmington, NC. Tickets will sell out so click here.
Join Wiley for a lecture by Dr. Adam Rothman, the director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies and co-editor of the recent book Facing Georgetown’s History: A Reader on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation, which details the university’s history of enslavement and its recent efforts to confront its past. In his autobiography, Coach John Thompson writes about Georgetown’s slaveholding legacy, especially the sale of 272 enslaved people in 1883 that was made to save the financially struggling university. Aside from tracing the descendants of the 272 individuals, Dr. Rothman’s research explores how institutions and communities confront their shameful pasts. OLLI Manheim Roon on the campus of UNC-Asheville. This event is part of the Fall 2023 Common Word Community Read. For more information click here.
Join Wiley for a virtual in-conversation event with Dr. Benjamin Gilmer, author of The Other Dr. Gilmer. Click here to find out more.
Join Wiley when he welcomes North Carolina’s own Steep Canyon Rangers from the stage at Greenfield Lake Amphitheater. Click here for tickets.
Join Wiley for a reading and book signing at the Rourk Branch of the Brunswick County Public Library.
Join Wiley for a craft talk on When the Lights Go Out by John Vercher. The event is open to members of This Is Working. Click here to find out more about this online community of writers.
Join Wiley at the Bookmarks Festival of Books and Authors when he’s in-conversation with Helen Ellis, author of Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge. For more information click here.
Join Wiley and several student-athletes for a robust discussion about the pressures and expectations of life as a student-athlete at UNC-Asheville. You might know these young people from the classroom, the court, or the community, but you might not know the full complexity of their lives and the responsibilities and challenges they face every day. OLLI Manheimer Room on the campus of UNC-Asheville. This event is part of the Fall 2023 Common Word Community Read. For more information click here.
Join Wiley for a virtual book talk with the High Country Writers at the Watauga County Public Library. For more information click here.
Join Wiley for an in-conversation event with National Book Award winner Charles Frazier to celebrate the launch of his new novel The Trackers. More information to come.
Join Wiley for the Friends of the Joyner Library Annual Banquet. Find more info. here.
Join Wiley for “Mental Health Behind Bars: The Role of Mental Health in the U.S. Legal System,” a lecture on the ways in which mental health is overlooked and underserved in the courts by Dr. Laura Jones, Associate Professor of Health & Wellness and Athletics Mental Health Coordinator. This event is part of UNC-Asheville’s Common Word Community Read. The spring selection is The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice by Dr. Benjamin Gilmer. Click here for more information.
Join Wiley and a number of other authors for Hub City Writers Project’s Delicious Reads. More info. to come.
Join Wiley for “How to Get Away with (Writing About) Murder,” a lecture on the explosion of true crime in popular culture by Dr. Laura Meadows, Assistant Professor of Mass Communications. This event is part of UNC-Asheville’s Common Word Community Read. The spring selection is The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice by Dr. Benjamin Gilmer. Click here for more information.
Join Wiley for the ceremony unveiling the USPS’s Ernest J. Gaines postage stamp in the Atchafalaya Ballroom in the Student Union at 620 McKinley St. on the campus of UL-Lafayette. Click here for more information.
Join Wiley for the Southern Author Expo at the Hughes Main Library in Greenville SC. Learn more here.
Join Wiley for a reading and book signing at Thornwell Books on Monday, Oct. 24 at 7:00 p.m.
Join Wiley when he reads Jill McCorkle’s iconic story “Your Husband Is Cheating on Us” for Adult Story Hour to benefit the Cape Fear Literacy Council. A Q&A will follow, hosted by personalities from our local public radio station, WHQR Public Media. Books will be available for purchase, thanks to Pomegranate Books. Click here for location, tickets, and more information.